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If true, these outrageous actions by acting officials are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents.”
Despite Patel’s reassurances, the FBI Agents Association expressed I was informed by FBIHQ today that the executive leadership at the Department of Justice plans to dismiss me from the rolls of the FBI, along with several other FBI executives, as soon as Monday Morningm,
a special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas field office told NBC News The FBI is declining to comment on any questions regarding FBI personnel matters. We have also instructed the public affairs officers in our field offices to decline to comment as well,
However, an FBI spokesperson told ABC News ... upon reaching out Every FBI employee will be held to the absolute same standard, and no one will be terminated for cases. All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution,
Are you aware of any plans or discussions to punish in any way, including termination, FBI agents or personnel associated with Trump investigations?”
Part of the FBI’s job is to safeguard classified information, and when we learn that information, classified material, is not being properly stored, we have a duty to act. And I can tell you that in investigations like this one, a search warrant is not — and here was not — anybody’s first choice,
We’re cleaning house of what doesn’t work for us and going forward,
an official told NBC News Some were unfair or were not doing the job."
Trump defended the firings, saying I am not aware of that, senator,
I was given no rationale for this decision, which, as you might imagine, has come as a shock,
I have no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards. There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken,
Patel said at the Senate Judiciary Committee Dismissing potentially hundreds of Agents would severely weaken the Bureau’s ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and will ultimately risk setting up the Bureau and its new leadership for failure,
the association said in a statement
